Okay, this once a week writing thing has to get back to everyday again. As if the tooth thing weren’t enough, now I am SICK…and I have been since Saturday evening. Ugh. I thought it was allergies. Then a cold. Now, I suspect it is a sinus infection. It’s been going on for five days. I have to get better soon. Or buy stock in Kleenex.

I don’t know ( Read more... )

So I’m cheating. I’m doing Monday’s writing a few hours early.

Mondays are hard.
Screw Mondays.
Screw office hours.
Screw teaching two classes.
Screw preparing for Tuesday night’s ground class-which I totally have to do because I had to cancel last week, and now I’m totally lost.

Dammit. I may say “screw all that” but ya’ll know I’m going to do it.  ( Read more... )

It all started about 5 pm yesterday. In retrospect, I should have seen it coming earlier in the afternoon: the sleepiness; the disinterest in anything food related; the greater-than-normal fussiness. I sat on the sofa, holding Baby Jack on my lap, feeding him a bottle. He pushed it away, sat bolt upright, and…

Then it happened. He opened his wee ( Read more... )